[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4

[Tony Anderson]

On 08/06/2013 05:39 AM, server-devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
> Tony, you have quoted me and misunderstand my use of the word
> "unstable".  It means something that continues to change, that
> develops, in response to user input in the form of enhancements and
> bug fixes.  I would like to see continued change and development of
> both XS and XSCE.  I don't see it happening at the moment; both
> development streams appear stalled (there are no published plans to
> release), but I would not be unhappy to see the streams restarted.
>
> "stable" software means it isn't going to change, isn't going to
> develop in response to changing needs, and isn't going to be fixed.


Sorry. I thought stable meant a production release - the one that 
deployments should use.

In the sense you describe, there never has been a ongoing server 
development. It was put together by Martin Langhoff and updated to
XS-0.7 by Daniel Drake. As far as I am aware, there is no Trac for
problems with XS-0.7. There is also no feature request process.

On the other hand, XSCE does have a development team and a planned 
release process (currently 0.3 with plans for 0.4 and 0.5).

As Sameer has written, the primary concern is a perception that XSCE is 
a successor to XS-0.7. It is an alternative designed to meet certain 
specific hardware and deployment needs. XSCE is also not a fork of XS in 
the normal use of that term in software development. XS is an open 
source project (primarily consisting of packaging and configuring 
CentOS, Moodle, and so on) so ownership by OLPC is not an issue.

Tony